On the eighth day of October in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the night, Weinan.

Tongguan has been lost for several days, the whole army retreats and retreats, the remnants of less than 3,000 people are all stationed here, the soldiers are lying on the ground horizontally, it just rained heavily yesterday, and it is still fluttering and sprinkling non-stop, so the ground in the city is full of mud, and the soldiers do not care, only hold the iron spear and spear in their hands, and sleep very sweetly.

In addition to the four corner towers on the castle tower, there is still light, and occasionally a small group of patrolling soldiers passing by, there is also a thunderous snoring everywhere.

Defeated again and again, from Huguang to Henan, and then fled to Tongguan, now even Tongguan has been lost, the battle has reached this point, the Inspector is also helpless, several chief officers surrendered, fled and fled, now in this Weinan City in addition to the Supervisor, there is only the prison Qiao Yuanzhu, as well as those old masters of the shogunate, when they go out of the customs, there will be 100,000 kings, until now, there is only this ember left!

What if you don't sleep? Today, he is down, and no matter whether his mother is dead or alive, when he is a soldier and eats food, he is already worthy of the overseer and the military salary given by the court!

In fact, if it weren't for Sun Chuanting's prestige to enter the hearts of the people early, and the Qin army in central Shaanxi admired him like a god, I am afraid that the army's heart would have collapsed long ago!

When it was said that the second marshal of Qinzhong, Hong Zhijun had thrown himself into the Tartars early, and his reputation was ruined, but Sun Chuanting was imprisoned in the prison for a few years, but he polished the stubbornness and impatience of the year, and the arrogance of the unsparing son.

It can be said that in this battle of Xiangcheng, although Li Zicheng had a deep part of deceiving the enemy, it was extremely difficult for the Shaanxi army to move forward bravely in the contact battle at the beginning, and repeatedly defeated the army.

You must know that Zuo Liangyu claims to have 500,000 troops, and when he sees Li Zicheng's banner, he looks at the wind and leaves, and the other Ming troops don't even have the courage to invite the battle, let alone submit the battle to win.

And what Sun Chuanting commanded was just a new army that he had trained in Persimmon Garden for more than a year!

At this time, defeat and defeat again, only the three thousand or so commanders and horses are still left, the general soldiers either surrender or flee, Sun Chuanting has no generals available, Weinan City is small, and the remnants of the new station, the army is only one day away, and when the city is surrounded, I am afraid that it is when everyone dies.

Death is death, Guanzhong man, but there is no habit of surrendering and fleeing against the master, although Bai Guangen and Gao Jie are gone, but these two people are originally thieves, and at the critical moment, it is not surprising that they are unreliable!

In the middle of the night, a fast horse came from the direction of the north and south gates of Weiwei, the sound of hooves was crisp and loud, coupled with the non-stop ringing of horse bells, it was conceivable that there was a difference in sending a letter.

Sure enough, the fast horse galloped all the way to the north gate of the city gate, under the light of the city headlights, you can see that the knight on the horse fiercely strangled the galloping fast horse, the horse neighed, just a few feet away at the city gate, the man "ouch", but fell from the horse's back to the ground.

A black gauze hat fell off his head, and immediately he was lying on his back, as if he didn't even have the strength to scream, and looked down from above, but he saw that his face was yellow, and he was wearing a big red official robe, which was embroidered with the mendification of the six-rank military attaché.

Of course, the people at the head of the city don't recognize this military attache who fell and fainted, but it doesn't matter, there is often such a rush from the capital, but it is generally a post guard or a poor person with a fire card from the military department, not like the one in front of him, although it must be a discount from the package behind him, but an official uniform, but it is confusing again.

Anyway, the people at the head of the city put a hanging basket down, and the two of them came down, put the man in the basket, and then hung it together.

As soon as he hung the man up, he poured it into his mouth with Zhuge Marching, untied his chest, and wiped his chest with medicinal wine.

When someone wanted to unwrap the package behind him, the man woke up, but when he saw a cold light flashing in his eyes, he grabbed the man's hand, and the strength was so great that the painful man screamed in pain.

"Let go, let go, you're here to deliver the letter, aren't you? Is it the emperor's approval, or the official document of the ministry, or a private letter? ”

The north gate is not very important, the person in charge here is a general who supervises the standard, and when he sees the person who faints and wakes up, he is so vigilant, and he can't help but praise it in his heart.

"Oh, I've already entered the city......" As soon as he said this, the man really came to his senses, and in a blink of an eye, the people around him could see it, and the eyes of the people who came were full of vigilance, and the whole person looked capable and capable, and at a glance he knew that he was not an ordinary person.

"Yes, this is the north and south gates of Weibei, what's the matter, hurry up." The general laughed miserably and said: "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest, we will all be ghosts on Huangquan Road, this brother, if you send a letter, hand over the letter and leave quickly." ”

"No, I have to meet the overseer."

"Which ministry are you from? I'll have to go back to the overseer. ”

"I'm ...... Hey, at this time, can I still be an assassin? Let's just say, I'm a discount sent by Kyosato. ”

The meaning of the words is vague and mysterious, but when the general thinks about it, it is indeed the same reason. Now at this time, the 200,000 elites of the army have entered Tongguan, and 70,000 people have crossed the Yellow River north, so there is really no need to send an assassin to do this in the remnants of the army.

Therefore, the head of the chin agreed, and only said, "Let someone carry you with you, and wait outside!" ”

"Be quick!"

"Know...... The Inspector hasn't slept much at this time. ”

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Sun Chuanting really didn't sleep, he is fifty-one years old this year, and as a politician, he is still in his golden age. However, for him, whether it is his career or his life, the time for the end is about to be in the past two days.

If he goes out of Tongguan again, he will be defeated again, and he is actually mentally prepared for this. It has only been a year since the army was hastily formed, and his main force can't stand up, relying on Gao Jie and Bai Guangen and others, he can still fight a dozen in good times, and in adversity, he must be completely defeated.

However, despite this understanding, there is nothing to be done. Feng Yuanbiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, wrote a letter in private, persuading him not to use Bai Guangen and Gao Jie, who were born in the thief army and had no faith, so they would betray if they said they were betrayed...... Sun Chuanting also thinks so, but without these two people, where are the soldiers and where are the generals?

In other words, it's just empty words!

Looking at the court, although Yang Sichang was wrong with him and caused him to sit in prison for several years, in terms of talent, Yang still has some talent. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, he and Hong Chengchou led the Qin army to defeat Li Zicheng in Tongguan, forced Zhang Xianzhong to surrender, rode a horse and held a knife, fought in person, and rushed to kill in front of him again and again, and was praised by the father and elder of Guanzhong, and it was his mentor Hong Chengchou who also added his blue eyes and appreciated him very much. Thinking back then, how proud it was...... It's just that when the end is about to end, the partial Dongyu is besieging Jinzhou again...... So it didn't succeed, the army went north, he opposed the transfer of the Shaanxi army out of the customs, and said that Li Zicheng needed to be careful and wary, which offended Yang Sichang and angered the emperor, but because he was worried about state affairs, he was white-headed overnight, and his ears were also deaf, and the emperor thought he was a fake disease, and he was furious and put him in prison.

After the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the emperor was unavailable, so he was released.

This time, he said to people: "The husband can no longer fight the prison guards, if he does not win the battle, he will only die!" ”

At this time, in the city of Weinan, he was completely discouraged and despairing, and after finding a place to live in a gentry house in the city, he lived in peace. Because Sun Chuanting has decided not to flee again, because even if he escapes to the city of Xi'an, the army will follow, and Xi'an has no soldiers and no generals, and it will definitely not be able to hold it.

As for fleeing to Shanxi, he knew that Li Zicheng had sent Liu Fangliang to Shanxi, preparing to go straight to the Zhending area of Hebei in the future and cut off the emperor's way back to the south...... It's an obvious strategy, and if it were him, it would have been. So he didn't feel that Shanxi was safe, and he didn't think that after the fiasco, the emperor would pardon him!

The emperor is anxious, Sun Chuanting has already understood, last time he was lucky because of the teacher's intercession, and he was a hero of the great victory, so he escaped a surname, this time, I am afraid that if the edict comes, it will be an edict to be killed in front of the army.

In this case, why not cut yourself?

At this time, the light in the room was like a bean, Sun Chuanting drove out all his own soldiers, and he didn't want a subordinate to serve, he sat in front of the bookcase, just pondering the poems.

He had already made up his mind, and when the city was broken, he would kill himself in this courtyard, although he was a literati, but he would also die a heroic and manly death.

It's just that if before he dies, he can write a poem and pass it down through the ages, I'm afraid it will live up to his life.

At this moment, the general of the north gate rushed over, and without waiting for the report, he crashed in, entered the room, bowed to the stunned Sun Chuanting, and said: "Master Inspector, there is a discount from outside the city, from Beijing, this person has a six-hundred-mile urgent paperwork, two thousand six hundred and forty miles, and arrived in four days...... He wants to hand it over to the adult in person, and ask the adult to show it, do you see it or not? ”

"From the military department?"

"The man didn't say it."

"Confused!" Sun Chuanting waved his hand and said, "Tell the prison army to dismantle it, whether it is a decree or a ministry, just follow it." ”

At this point, he didn't expect Chongzhen to have any good way, there were no soldiers and no salary, and the gods were tied. Especially a few days ago, when the court ordered him, he actually appointed Bai Guangen, the fugitive general, to help the chief military officer, and asked him to bring 30,000 border troops to help...... This is simply a joke, with this kind of will, the emperor is afraid that he will also be sick and rushed to the doctor.

In that case, what good is the view?

"This ......" the general hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Look at this person's appearance, he is not an ordinary person...... By the way, he is still wearing a six-grade military attache uniform, and he is a military attache in Beijing. ”

"Is that so?" Sun Chuanting's eyes also showed a skeptical brilliance, he paused for a moment, and finally bowed his head and said, "In that case, just ask him to come in and ask." Seeing that the general turned to go out, he finally sighed again, and said to himself: "What a stupid, such a senseless move...... Alas, I still have the idea of escaping after all, well, by all means, my teacher's lifelong career will be ruined by the word fear of death, I can never do this! ”